Author Jim Hightower

America to D.C. — Democrats included: We’re mad as hell and you’re not listening!

December 2007

IN A SEASON THAT SHOULD BE CONVIVIAL AND COMFORTING — filled with family, friends, fun, spiritualism, good food, song, and high...

BushCheney really is planning to attack Iran!

November 2007

LOOK OUT–HERE THEY COME AGAIN! Bush & Buckshot are riding their little stick horses, waving the bloody flag of 9/11, demonizing...

The presidency is taking over the courts and Congress

October 2007

WHERE IS CONGRESS? It’s way past time for members to stand up. Historic matters are at stake. The Constitution is being...

Where Bush’s arrogance has taken us

August 2007

DURING HIS GUBERNATORIAL DAYS IN TEXAS, George W let slip a one-sentence thought that unintentionally gave us a peek into...

Loan sharks wreak havoc on Main Street and Wall Street

August 2007

ONE OF THE MOST DRAMATIC STORIES from the New Testament is of the time that Jesus encountered money changers in the...

Politicians are selling our bridges rather than building them

July 2007

WILL ROGERS SOMETIMES TUCKED little moral messages into his one-liners. For example: “I’d rather be the man who bought the...

The Bushites have outsourced our government to their pals

June 2007

THE SPRAWLING $43 BILLION HOMELAND SECURITY DEPARTMENT (HSD) is known chiefly for being the agency in charge of America’s color-coded terrorist-threat...

Yet the war goes on…

May 2007

■ 3,300 American troops and hundreds of thousands of Iraqis are dead ■ Rumsfeld said the Iraq attack would cost...

Corporations that paid-to-play in the last election

April 2007

FROM THE “LAND OF THE CLUELESS AND CONNIVING,” meet a couple of gentlemen who insist that America’s political funding system is...

Who paid for Repubs and Dems in our last election?

March 2007

THE 2006 ELECTION RESULTS HAVE JUST COME IN! Not the polling results for Congress, of course—we got those last November. I’m...

People are electing candidates who shun corporate cash

February 2007

“We have to leech this excess, this wretched excess, of money out of the system which is distorting democracy.”  —Former...

Why Wal-Mart is still one down and dirty corporation

January 2007

“You can’t create a team spirit when the situation is so one-sided, when management gets so much and workers get...

It was a “throw the bums out” AND a “change America’s direction” election

December 2006

AT AN OCTOBER FUNDRAISER IN TOPEKA,the Republican faithful lined up to shake hands with the headliner, Dick Cheney. But before...

Terrorists? Nope, it’s Bush&Co. who’ve blasted our infrastructure

November 2006

CODE RED, AMERICANS! Screaming, flashing, neon-bright, God Almighty RED!!! Not just a single disaster, but multiple, biblical-level catastrophes are being...

Repubs have a rock on their back, Dems meekly mumble

October 2006

AS YOU READ THIS ISSUE OF THE LOWDOWN, I’m out on the political trail, rambling back and forth across America in...

Our national parks are being trashed and taken over

September 2006

IT SEEMS TO ME THAT GEORGE W missed his true calling. I think he has long harbored a secret desire...

Let’s look at our economy by the numbers

July 2006

George W keeps buzzing around like a maniacal mosquito on a hot summer night, pestering us with speeches and photo...

The four Big Lies about universal health care

June 2006

How messed up is America’s health-care system? Consider the case of the Leavitts. Anne and her husband Dixie, both in...

Who’s spying on us? Rumsfeld’s Pentagon takes the lead

May 2006

In 1928, Justice Louis Brandeis wrote that the real threat to American freedom was not from an outside assault, but...

Spy on ’em, torture ’em, lock ’em up. Is this what America stands for?

April 2006

  A fellow from a town just outside of Austin wrote a four-sentence letter to the editor of our local...

No-fat? Low-carbs? Baloney! Go for the no-junk diet!

March 2006

  Even though winter still has its frigid grip on most of the land, I’m already thinking out-of-season, looking ahead...

States, cities go for Living Wage, Clean Elections, and medical pot

February 2006

  What an embarrassment our national government is. Mired in the sickening muck of corrupt corporate money and right-wing ideology,...

How the social glue of America is being dissolved

January 2006

People like Robert Paulk and Jerry Roy are the heart of corporations like General Motors. Paulk, 58, and Roy, 49,...

A real Democratic Party would say “We’re on your side!”

December 2005

Dear Santa:There are so many toys I’d love to find under my tree this year! All kinds of new kitchen...

Our oldest mountains are being blown away

November 2005

Many of you Lowdowners have told me that you often share the newsletter with your teenagers—and even younger children. Therefore,...